Bug Squad

Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay

UC ANR is renovating its website. The Bug Squad blog, by Kathy Keatley Garvey of the University of California, Davis, is a daily (Monday-Friday) blog launched Aug. 6, 2008. It is about the wonderful world of insects and the entomologists who study them. Blog posts are archived at https://my.ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/archive.cfm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The making of a maggot art masterpiece. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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A Maggot Art Masterpiece

May 30, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 "Better autograph that right now. That could be a valuable piece of art some day!"So said an onlooker when youngsters were creating maggot art at the recent Bohart Museum of Entomology open house. The theme: "Insects: Life Stages."Doctoral candidate Emma "Em" Jochim of the lab of Professor Jason Bond,…
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Flame skimmer dragonfly (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Wonder of Dragonflies

May 29, 2025
 UC Davis doctoral candidate Christofer Brothers, who researches  dragonflies for his dissertation, delights in sharing his knowlege of them.And he did just that--to several hundred guests--at the recent Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on insect life stages.Brothers, a member of the Stacey…
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Miranda Do-Tran, 2025 Lang Prize winner
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Learn How to Write a Research Paper

May 28, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 If you want to learn how to write a research paper, follow the "10 Principles" authored by UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus James R. Carey of the Department of Entomology and Nematology.His students have won the Science, Engineering and Mathematics (SEM) category of the UC Davis Library’s 2025…
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Dung beetle on the move. (Credit: Garvey Family Image)
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Insects, Art and the Sound of a Silent Crisis

May 27, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 When medical entomologist Lee Rafuse Haines, associate research professor, University of Notre Dame,  speaks on "Insects, Art and the Sound of a Silent Crisis" at the June 2nd seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, she'll work dung beetles into her presentation. …
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Monarch butterfly on an American flag. (Poto by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Memorial Day: A Somber Day

May 26, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 Memorial Day: A somber dayToday we honor and mourn our U.S. military who died while serving in our Armed Forces.It was first known as Decoration Day."The first national observance of Memorial Day occurred on May 30, 1868," Wikipedia tells us. "Then known as Decoration Day and observed on May…
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